EDIT: The @minnowmentor account and discord are now live. Please support by Resteeming this intro link: https://steemit.com/introducemyself/@minnowmentor/introducing-minnowmentor-a-free-service-to-help-minnows-earn-more

The other night I announced that Minnow Mentor was launching, and had a great response from a number of people who were all up for being mentored. I am pleased that I am getting through taking a good look at those who have already asked for support, and just wanted to give you the latest.

So, I have now registered @minnowmentor as a new account. I'm making this public because there are lots of problems with people running multiple accounts for multiple reasons, and I believe in being utterly transparent.

IMPORTANT NOTE

@MINNOWMENTOR will start as a project in the week commencing 28th August 2017 and not before. Although I will be commenting on posts before then, it is not until after the 28th August that we will start properly.

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@minnowmentor is a bit different from some other projects, mainly because it's not about making money for the people running it. This is a purely altruistic project. It will provide something which is:

• Purely for the benefit of the community

  
  Minnowmentor will be a central account for mentoring, so I can keep my own blog for my other projects. @minnowmentor will be a completely transparent project, designed solely for helping minnows develop. Neither myself, nor anyone else will make financial gain from @minnowmentor unless they either put their time in as an active mentor, or help the project by delegating Steem Power.

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• Free Service open to all minnows

This service will cost minnows absolutely nothing. We are doing this because we genuinely want to help, and because if we create more dolphins (and hopefully whales) it will only benefit the entire community, and improve the quality of posts.

@minnowmentor will be absolutely FREE for new members who have a reputation under 50 AND who have been steeming for under 4 months.

If you reputation is 50+, or you have been here for over 4 months, you are invited to join the programme too, but we ask for a Steem Donation which will be immediately powered up to provide bigger curation rewards. It will be up to the individual to decide how much they wish to donate, and there will be no minimum amount, but we would like people to value the service appropriately.

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• Earnings to benefit the community

Now this is something a bit different to many of the Steemit services:

All of the Curation and Post Earnings from Minnowmentor will be shared with those who get involved for their time, and used to build up SteemPower for rewarding our minnows for improving their posts.

This is NOT about trying to get one individual a load of earnings. It's purely to support the community. We will be asking for witnesses and whales to continue to look at us, and to be transparent about what we are doing.

• 50% of all earnings will be pumped into Steem Power to assist with the growth of @minnowmentor. The SP minnowmentor earns will purely be used to upvote our minnows posts.
• 25% of all earnings will be shared amongst the mentors as a thank you for their involvement.
• 25% of all earnings will be given to those who delegate SP to help the project develop.

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• Real mentors (not bots) looking at our minnows posts and giving advice.

Mentors will all be vetted, and will all have a reputation of at least 50+ and SP of over 1000. They should also have registered accounts over 3 months old and have been involved in at least one area of promotion/development/marketing/support or something else connected with growing Steemit.

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• A powerful learning environment

There's a lot to learn when it comes to Steemit. To go from newbie to advanced with some of the cool things you can do on Steemit takes time and effort. Minnowmentor will be publishing a full course of learning material which will support minnows, especially more non-technical ones. This will cover as far as possible every aspect of the Steemit community, including some of the more advanced stuff.

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• Rewarding promising minnows

  
  We all know minnows are perfectly capable of producing great quality content. @minnowmentor intends to reward minnows who are showing promise, and acting upon the feedback of their mentor to improve even further. We want to be able to help our minnows smile.

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• Investment opportunity for supporters

  
  This project will be really successful if we have supporters. This means we need great mentors to help curate and provide feedback on our minnows.

We also want to take in a large (and growing amount) of delegated SP which will earn interest over time from the curation and posting rewards that the @minnowmentor account makes.

Mentors will also share in the rewards that the @minnowmentor account earns through posts and curation.

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• How it will work - basic guide

  
  Every few days (when there are mentors available) @minnowmentor will make a "CASTING THE NET" post. In this post, we will be clear about the number of minnows we can mentor right now. This will be based purely on how many mentors we have available, and the time they can commit.

Minnows will make a request in the comments using the hashtag #mentorme

Once the minnow slots are filled for the next few days, the minnows will be assigned to their mentors.

The mentors will then look at multiple aspects of the minnows feeds, with the intention of providing the very best feedback possible to help the minnows grow.

A full guide will be released soon.

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HOW TO ASSIST @MINNOWMENTOR

So, no man is an island, and I will need help with this. As I'm already involved with the #promo-uk team, there may well be some natural support from this group of exceptional Steemers.

But ideally what we need now is mentors, and sponsors to kick us off.

If you want to be a mentor, or If you think you can help by delegating SP, or some other way then Please join the discord channel using the following link: https://discord.gg/KHnZNf9 and let me know you are interested in being a mentor. Let's talk.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO BE MENTORED

Mentoring will start proper the week commencing 28th August 2017. The first CAST THE NET post will be going out next weekend. I'm sorry about the delay, but it's needed to get new mentors in, and also I'm moving house this week!